Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2010, #03; Wed, 24)

> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 16:03, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm really not thinking straight today: This was in the MSVC-section,
>> and I tried to build with MinGW. If I move it to the MinGW section,
>> then it's closer to working:
>>
>> $ make
>>    CC alias.o
>>    CC alloc.o
>> <...>
>>    CC gettext.o
>> gettext.c:3:21: error: libintl.h: No such file or directory
>> gettext.c:7:22: error: langinfo.h: No such file or directory
>> gettext.c: In function 'git_setup_gettext':
>> gettext.c:17: warning: implicit declaration of function 'bindtextdomain'
>> gettext.c:25: error: 'LC_MESSAGES' undeclared (first use in this function)
>> gettext.c:25: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>> gettext.c:25: error: for each function it appears in.)
>> gettext.c:30: warning: implicit declaration of function 'nl_langinfo'
>> gettext.c:30: error: 'CODESET' undeclared (first use in this function)
>> gettext.c:30: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
>> gettext.c:32: warning: implicit declaration of function 'bind_textdomain_codeset
>> '
>> gettext.c:34: warning: implicit declaration of function 'textdomain'
>> make: *** [gettext.o] Error 1
>>
>> So this seems to be the same issue as what Hannes is talking about;
>> gettext.o being included into LIB_OBJS before we know if it should or
>> not.
>>
>> Moving it down to the rest of the NO_GETTEXT-magic fixes the problem for me:
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index 8357106..a858708 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
>>  # The default target of this Makefile is...
>>  all::
>> -
>>  # Define V=1 to have a more verbose compile.
>>  #
>>  # Define SHELL_PATH to a POSIX shell if your /bin/sh is broken.
>> @@ -628,9 +627,6 @@ LIB_OBJS += entry.o
>>  LIB_OBJS += environment.o
>>  LIB_OBJS += exec_cmd.o
>>  LIB_OBJS += fsck.o
>> -ifndef NO_GETTEXT
>> -LIB_OBJS += gettext.o
>> -endif
>>  LIB_OBJS += graph.o
>>  LIB_OBJS += grep.o
>>  LIB_OBJS += hash.o
>> @@ -1603,6 +1600,8 @@ endif
>>
>>  ifdef NO_GETTEXT
>>        COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_GETTEXT
>> +else
>> +       LIB_OBJS += gettext.o
>>  endif
>>
>>  ifdef NEEDS_LIBINTL
>
> Doesn't it also work for you to just add:
>
>    NO_GETTEXT = YesPlease
>    NEEDS_LIBINTL =
>
> To the MinGW specific section in the Makefile? That's why I did the
> "Makefile: move "Platform specific tweaks" above LIB_{H,OBJS}"
> patch. I just hadn't submitted another patch to disable it on MinGW. I
> think I asked someone to look into that (e.g. I know that you're
> working on MinGW + gettext, so maybe we don't want to disable it
> anymore). But I can't find that posting now, and maybe I didn't send it.
>
> Anyway, if that works it's a cleaner way to disable it.
>